Natalia Antonova is editor of GlobalComment and ArabComment. She is also a regular columnist. When she is not working, she is blogging, writing creatively, and yelling rude things at football games on television.

How do you defuse a situation in which civilians have no one left to trust but the very people who can easily, and, it seems, without many regrets – considering the reward that surely awaits the suffering in paradise – get them killed?

It was refreshing to hear Maysoon speak about working with Adam Sandler at the press conference, because many of my earnest friends had quickly dismissed the film, which aims to poke fun at conflict in the Middle East, as racist clap-trap.